Abstract
For complex engineering systems, their components or subsystem are likely vulnerable due to the mis-operations or intentional attacks. Preventive investment in the components is necessary to guarantee the safety critical systems to work properly and in high performance. The purpose of this paper is to propose an efficient and effective resource allocation strategy to distribute the limited preventive investment to the systems, which is learned from the botanic phenomenon: apical dominance. A resource allocation model is presented with this strategy, in which important factors in calculating 'auxin', the terminology used in botany, are discussed. We illustrate the strategy of allocating the resource with a numerical example.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management 2008, PSAM 2008 |
| Pages | 2575-2582 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Volume | 3 |
| State | Published - 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management 2008, PSAM 2008 - Hong Kong, China Duration: May 18 2008 → May 23 2008 |
Other
| Other | 9th International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management 2008, PSAM 2008 |
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| Country/Territory | China |
| City | Hong Kong |
| Period | 05/18/08 → 05/23/08 |
Keywords
- Apical dominance
- Importance measure
- Preventive resource allocation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
- Statistics and Probability